The $4m contract using Unisys ES2043 enterprise servers, plus Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe software, will link 1,500 of the University's existing 4,000 PCs as thin-clients over the next 18 months.
Travar Greun-Kennedy, director of business development at Citrix and chairman of ASPIC, believes that outsourcing applications can cut TCO by as much as 65 per cent. TCO (total cost of ownership) will be 10 to 40 per cent lower than if you procured...
While the concepts behind MetaFrame have always been strong, it has never been easy to sell into businesses that have grown up with the fat-client philosophy. Even when the issues of TCO and the return to server-centric computing were raised...
Citrix recently strengthened its hold on the virtual desktop with the release of its latest iteration of its MetaFrame application server. MetaFrame for Windows XP Feature Release 2 is packed with enhancements sure to further the Citrix cause.
And it is using Citrix thin-client technology to avoid many of the issues of desktop deployment. Unfortunately, the Citrix approach is still much more complex than one would like. But if it is efficiency we are after, maybe the emphasis should...
The reason for that was TCO [total cost of ownership]," he said. Thin client technology has come of age and can help boost security and trim IT costs, according to a panel of users. With the PC now 25 years old, a number of competing technologies...